The purpose of this study-as to evaluate the maternal perception of her newborn and identify the factors affecting the mother-infant relationship.
Broussard´s Neonatal Perception Inventories were completed by 57 mothers on the first or second postpartum far (Time Ⅰ) while they were still in the Hospital.
These inventories were again administered when the infants were approximately one month of age (Time Ⅱ).
X²-test and Correlation coefficients used to testspecific hypctheses and the results of this study were summarized as follows.
1) The maternal perception of her newborn at Time Ⅰ was not related with the education, the parity, the experience of abortion, the type of delivery and the method of feeding but related with the sex of baby (P<0. 1)
2) The maternal perception of her newborn at Time Ⅱ was not related with the education, the parity, the experience of abortion, the type of delivery, the sex of baby and the method of feeding.
3) The changes of maternal perception between Time Ⅰ and Time Ⅱ were not related with the education, the type of delivery, the sex of baby, the method of feeding, the mothers attitude toward baby, and the family attitude toward baby.
4) The matenal perception of the new born was not correlated with the education, the parity, the sex of baby, the method of feeding, the mothers attitude toward baby, and the family attitude toward baby but correlated with the age at Time Ⅱ.
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